A book on Cricket and Discontents
Cricket historian Gideon Haigh’s book is a collection of essays that chronicles the travails of the cricket world in the second half of the past decade. He trains his guns on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the International Cricket Council (ICC), the Indian Premier League (IPL), Allen Stanford, Lalit Modi and spot fixing, as he tries to makes sense of the cacophony surrounding ‘The Gentleman’s Game’.
(This story appears in the 21 October, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)